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I'm hoping that with South a success, the "increasing supply" part will finally start to take hold here in the US. It would probably help if South could attract the same exhibitors Prime does, though. (I heard East was kinda scarce in this regard as well this year, but I'm not sure if that's normal or not for East?)

January and March are right after the big holiday season where most devs have nothing major to show or announce until closer to the next holiday season.

Prime, on the other hand, is right before the holiday season hits, meaning they can announce big stuff that either will be sold that season or just miss it. Further, a lot of the crap that got announced at E3 will be playable on the expo floor. It's just a matter of how the industry works each year.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it means South and East can give indie developers a greater opportunity to be noticed since they don't tend to let the holiday season affect their schedule as much. Not to mention non-electronic stuff like board games and RPGs get to shine a bit more.

Also, I feel like going to PAX to play the next big AAA title is spending a lot of time and money to sit in a line for six hours just to play a maybe thirty minute demo is not all that wise?

I'm hoping that with South a success, the "increasing supply" part will finally start to take hold here in the US. It would probably help if South could attract the same exhibitors Prime does, though. (I heard East was kinda scarce in this regard as well this year, but I'm not sure if that's normal or not for East?)

January and March are right after the big holiday season where most devs have nothing major to show or announce until closer to the next holiday season.

Prime, on the other hand, is right before the holiday season hits, meaning they can announce big stuff that either will be sold that season or just miss it. Further, a lot of the crap that got announced at E3 will be playable on the expo floor. It's just a matter of how the industry works each year.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it means South and East can give indie developers a greater opportunity to be noticed since they don't tend to let the holiday season affect their schedule as much. Not to mention non-electronic stuff like board games and RPGs get to shine a bit more.

Also, I feel like going to PAX to play the next big AAA title is spending a lot of time and money to sit in a line for six hours just to play a maybe thirty minute demo is not all that wise?

Don't get me wrong, I had a ton of fun at South. I just sort of missed the, well, spectacle of Prime. It's not even that I necessarily care about huge AAA titles. (I mean, thinking on it my most anticipated thing for Prime is that I'm really hoping Harmonix will be there with Rock Band 4.) But it's neat to see the Big 3 and the big publishers there with their metaphorical guns blazing.

I'm (probably) going to Prime this year, but considering where my usual PAX buddies are located I suspect South will become my main show. It'll be interesting to see how it evolves.

I really enjoyed the one PAX I went to, but I think I had more fun outside the con then in the convention hall itself.

I haven't even tried to get tickets these last few years though, too much work for me. I've shifted into boardgames over videogames anyway, so small local boardgame cons where I can still get tickets a week before they start ard muxh more my speed.

Going to PAX east these past two years on Sunday, with the main intent of checking out indie-developed games, has been relatively hassle-free and resulted in a decent amount of time spent playing new/upcoming games that I otherwise would have never bothered to learn about. Granted, I have the luxury of being less than an hour from Boston proper.

I've only ever gawked at the massive displays for big-budget titles when I attend, but waiting in lines to play those seems more tedious and chore-like than what the event is intended to be.

honestly i enjoy just walking through or by the main exhibit hall but never really to browse in it. seeing the spectacle is fun from a distance. maybe going through some of the less trafficked vendor areas.

definitely was cool to check out stuff like Spy Party though, in part because @World as Myth is (was?) part of their team.

If PAX demand is so huge, then why not do the "make it worse" option, but good, in the form of a compartmentalized mini PAX? Some aspects of PAX should be modular right

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I am going to the pax prime thing for the first time in ever this year and I'm pretty excited I guess! I've never been to a convention for fun things!

Well except one time when I was a kid and my dad took me to IAAPA and I played Q-Zar before anyone had ever heard of it and my friends didn't believe me until I showed them a picture of 12 year old me and the Q-Zar booth ladies my dad took but I digress.

I don't really care about standing in line to play videogames, but after meeting a few pax-ers over the years, I'm really looking forward to meeting people with similar interests. As much as I love all my friends, no one I know gives a fig about gaming, and I rarely (if ever) find an opportunity to bullshit about games.

I love going to the various PAXes to spend time with my friends. What ever we end up doing, whether it's hanging out playing board games, grabbing drinks, telling stories, etc. it's always been a blast with you guys.

I guess if I didn't have E3 to go to every year, I'd be a lot more interested in the expo hall games. But for me, PAX is completely about being with and catching up with you great folk.